Avirous Racanelli, a US marine, witnessed his fathers legacy tarnish as he was dishonorably discharged after he had refused an order to kill children on a mission to “shut down” a few B.I.M. manufacturing plants. Now he’s gone on a new journey to find a solution to stop these black op missions which seemed to stem from Japan. Most illegal Biochemical Intelligence Mecha went into hiding after one of the illegal manufacturing plants exploded causing a string of other plants to be discovered by a Korean Detective Tamarian Byum wondering around Japan on vacation. Being way out of his jurisdiction in Neo Japan, it felt like this case wasn't for him. Coming to a halt on his investigation Byum stops at a food cart in Osaka but overheard a foreigner, Avirous and a local, Dominic Yahari, a gangster judging by the all to familiar tattoos covering up skin that can be seen, speaking about details on the same case not even he knew about
Join an alternate reality cyberpunk journey through Neo Japan
This story started in 2022 as a competition entry — Honeyfeed and MAL were running a tri-category contest and I was trying to write cyberpunk while simultaneously writing three other things and uploading daily instead of building properly. I wasn't patient. The story deserved better than that.
Avirous Racanelli has been sitting in a hotel room in Osaka for four years waiting for me to come back.
I came back.
Fragments of Madmen is now a complete 10-chapter Volume 1, fully rebuilt and extended from where it left off. It follows a US Marine turned investigator tracking the network that ordered his father's death across Neo Japan in 2043. New chapters drop weekly.
If you were here in 2022 — thank you for waiting.
If you're new — welcome to the mine.
— Lord Oro / Nonsense Media Network
This story started in 2022 as a competition entry — Honeyfeed and MAL were running a tri-category contest and I was trying to write cyberpunk while simultaneously writing three other things and uploading daily instead of building properly. I wasn't patient. The story...